Improvement in ruffling-attachment for sewing-machines



titled tatra @Hiwit Chillin@ LOUIS H. GUNNERMAN, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND Y,

WILLIAM G. HOOVER, OF `SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 95,469, dated October 5, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN' RUFFLINGA-ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS H. GUNNERMAN, of Pitts-A burg, in the county of Allegheny,4 and State 4of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Ruftling- Attachment to Sewing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a plan or top view of my improved rnitling-attachment.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the saine.

Figure 3 is a detail face view of rnftled and straight fabric connected by my device.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new apparatus for ruffling fabric, and for attaching the sarneto straight fabric; and

The invention consists in the arrangement of two plates, constructed as hereinafter described, by which the two fabrics will be properly gauged, and separated before they are sewed together.

A, in the drawing, represents the upper, and B, the lower plate of my improved rntling-attachment.'

Both plates ai@ made of sheet-metal or other suitable material.

' The lower plate B has two upward-projecting ears, a a, which have their faces in line with the direction of feed of the machine, and which fit through longitudinal slots b, in the upper plate.

Other ears, c, may project through other longitudinal slots, d, of A, `as shown, for guiding and connecting the two parts.

The plate A has a needle-notch, f, in front of the Vlugs a, as shown.

shown in the drawing.

The fabric, g, to be rutiled or gathered, is placed under the plate A, with its 'end against the earsa, which are moved as far from the needle-notch as the seam is to be from the end of the fabric. The feederpoints will then gather the under fabric. Y

That fabric, h, which is to remain straight, is placed upon A, against the ears a, and is held stretched by hand, so that as the threads connect the two fabrics, the lower one will be gathered, and the upper one straight, as in iig. 3.

The lower plate, it' will be seen, serves asa gauge for both fabrics.

VVhen the device is to be used, the gauge is first properly adjusted in vaccordance with the distance which it is desired to have between the seam and the end of the fabric. The plates are then fastened together and to the machine by a screw or screws passing, through slots e of the plates, into the machine.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters.

Patent- The two plates A 15, the former having slots b b, e

e, d, and needle-notches f f therein, and the latter upwardly-projecting lugs a, a c thereon, when the said' plates are constructed and arranged, with respect tov each other, and operated as and for the purpose-specified.

L. H. GUNNERMAN.

Witnesses: f

GEO.- F. MORGAN, THOMAS ROBERTS. 

